WASHINGTON — Former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has blamed Joe Biden’s “halting” 2024 debate performance against Donald Trump on the stress of his son Hunter’s federal weapons trial in a new tell-all book.

Jean-Pierre, 51, also claims she “saw no such decline” in the oldest-ever president’s mental acuity before the fateful night of June 27, 2024, and insists that Biden watching his “only living son” face decades in jail “broke” his heart.

“As soon as President Biden opened his mouth at the debate podium , I became worried,” she writes in her tome, “Independent,” out Tuesday. 6

“Then our phones started going off. It was clear that he was sick, and that this was the beginning of the end.”

Asked during a closed-door meeting of Democratic governors about his h

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